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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 4, 1986
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Our direct mail campaign has produced just over 40,000 responses to date
and the returns are still coming in. We hope to reach the 50,000 mark or
higher.
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(Submitted by Colin Adair, Regional Director)
TO BE READ IN ALL U.S. CHURCHES
There is an immediate need in the Church Publishing
Department
for
an
experienced
press
operator.
Candidates should have at least three to five years
experience in operating medium and small two-color,
offset printing presses.
Applicants should be high
school graduates with two years training in offset
printing preferred.
Please contact Joe Slevin at the Personnel Office if
interested. '!'he number to call is (818) 304-6100. Or
write to the Personnel Office, 300 West Green Street,
Pasadena, CA 91129.
Only individuals authorized to work in the United
States should apply.
--Larry R. Salyer, Director of Church Administration
ON THE WORLD SCENE
TERRORISM: WORST YET '1'0 COME; OORBACHEV COURTS EUROPEANS;
CAMPOS CRUSADE OF TSE 'SOS
As
the worl� careens into the second half of the 1980s, the face of
radical terrorism becomes ever more grim. '!'he terrorist who blew a hole
in the side of a TWA 727 airliner over Greece on April 2 did more than
damage the plane and kill four American passengers.
'!'he wanton act
threatens to cripple the global travel industry.
Concerned about recent incidents of mid-air hijackings and bombings,
,
airport waiting lounge massacres and bombs exploding in popular tourist
spots and restaurants, Americans
--
wbo appear to be the main targets--are
changing their travel plans this year. They will be vacationing more at
home, elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere or in East Asia (still
relatively untouched by terrorist mayhem). Bookings to Europe and the
Middle East, on the other band, are off sharply. Excursions to Greece,
for example, are expected to drop to half of those last year; hotel
cancellations in Italy are running at 30 percent over 1985 and rising;
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Egypt's tourist industry, still smarting from terrorist incidents last
year, is said to be in ruins. Travel to Israel by Americans is also down
� : harply, though mostly on airlines other than El Al. Israel's national